Goodnight from London

  —Joy Callaway, author of The Fifth Avenue Artists Society

  “Goodnight from London captures both the despair and the triumphant spirit of war-torn London through the eyes of Ruby Sutton, an American journalist, with precision and wit. Robson’s novel is an ode to the heroes of World War II, a touching love story, and a marvel.”

  —Fiona Davis, author of The Dollhouse

  ALSO BY JENNIFER ROBSON

  Moonlight Over Paris

  Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War

  After the War is Over

  Somewhere in France

  CREDITS

  Cover design by Laura Klynstra

  Cover photograph © Collaboration JS / Arcangel (couple); S.Borisov / Shutterstock (background)

  COPYRIGHT

  This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to Dr. Alexander Matthews and the Estate of Martha Gellhorn for permission to reprint an excerpt from “The Wounded Come Home” by Martha Gellhorn, which first appeared in Collier’s Weekly (August 4, 1944).

  GOODNIGHT FROM LONDON. Copyright © 2017 by Jennifer Robson. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

  FIRST EDITION

  EPub Edition MAY 2017 ISBN: 978-0-06-238984-8

  ISBN: 978-0-06-238985-5

  ISBN: 978-0-06-267557-6 (library edition)

  ISBN: 978-0-06-267355-8 (international edition)

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